Community Book Exchange: Logan Square Branch

October 11, 1:01 PMLogan Square ExaminerLynn Stevens

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Walking by the southeast corner of Logan and Kedzie Boulevards, I was again reminded of one of the things I love about this neighborhood:  the Community Book Exchange:  Logan Square Branch (though I don't know of any additional branches yet [Correction:  there is also a Wicker Park Branch]).

If you haven't seen it, it's a Chicago Reader newspaper box (mis?)appropriated and converted by Logan Square resident Ryan Duggan to a free book exchange serving readers in the community since 2006.  Don't worry, the Reader thought enough of it to feature a story on "The Littlest Library" shortly after the box surfaced in its current incarnation. 

Have books you no longer want?  Place them in the box.  Looking for a good read?  Go peruse the library shelves (all two of them).  My recent perusal uncovered the classic Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ray Bradbury's science fiction The Martian Chronicles, a fitting title (if you grasp the irony) in Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and a quirky but neighborhood appropriate title, Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo by Juan Roberto Job.

The origins of the video "store" next door are more mysterious, but it serves a similar purpose.  Have videos or DVDs you no longer want?  Place them in the box.  Looking for a movie escape?  Go peruse the shelf (just the one here).

Thanks neighbors!